Forthcoming in MER issue 297 "Health and the Body Politic" Nihal Kayali 11.24.2020 For the last six years, Turkey has hosted more refugees than any other country in the world. Since the beginning of...
Türkiye + 1 more
Türkiye + 1 more
Forthcoming in MER issue 297 "Health and the Body Politic" Nihal Kayali 11.24.2020 For the last six years, Turkey has hosted more refugees than any other country in the world. Since the beginning of...
Lebanon + 1 more
Erling Lorentzen Sogge The Palestinian Civil Defense was praised for its efforts after the explosion in Beirut. This is the story of how a group of stateless refugees built an organization that saved...
oPt + 1 more
Amahl Bishara, Nidal Al-Azza 05.14.2020 Amahl Bishara, associate professor at Tufts University, talked to Nidal Al-Azza, director of the Bethlehem-based Badil Resource Center for Palestinian...
Jordan + 4 more
Reva Dhingra On March 21, 2020 air raid sirens sounded across Jordan’s cities. The sirens marked the start of one of the most extensive lockdowns to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus—not just...
Egypt + 1 more
by Jessica Barnes | published October 1, 2018 The possible link between climate change and political upheaval in the Middle East has attracted increasing media attention and is generating a new wave...
by Joshua Stacher | published May 3, 2018 The mass of runners awaiting the starter gun in Manger Square could be anywhere in the world. Hundreds of kindred spirits communicate without words,...
Consolidating Power in the Unified Southern Territories by Susanne Dahlgren | published April 26, 2018 In late January this year, an armed conflict erupted in Aden between troops under command of...
Morocco + 16 more
by Parastou Hassouri | published September 12, 2017 Much of the media attention on global displacement currently focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis and refugees’ attempts to enter Europe through...
Jordan + 1 more
by Reva Dhingra | published March 2, 2016 Hasan bounces in his chair, pencil tapping against the table as he bends over the first page of a math exam. He hesitates, before stretching his hand...
Jordan + 3 more
by Vicky Kelberer | published November 5, 2015 Umm Anas’ four-room apartment rings with the muffled laughter of children told to hush. Her six sons and daughters and four neighborhood children huddle...
To read the article with links to sources, click here by Tobias Thiel With the war in Yemen well past its hundredth day, confusion persists as to the underlying causes of the conflict. Far from a...
With UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva involving the usual suspects and only a few new faces, it is time to raise the question of Yemen’s future as a state. The talks involve exiled President ‘Abd...
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by Christiane Fröhlich , Matthew R. Stevens The daily lives of Syrian refugees in Jordan have always been difficult, but until the winter of 2014-2015, they were defined more by concern about making...
At the close of 2014, Mahmoud ‘Abbas, head of the Ramallah wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA), announced that he would sign the Rome Statute, the 2002 treaty establishing the International...
Türkiye + 1 more
by Noga Malkin , Nick Danforth | published October 24, 2014 For background, see Aslı Ilgit and Rochelle Davis, “The Many Roles of Turkey in the Syrian Crisis,” Middle East Report Online, January 28,...
Jordan + 1 more
by Denis Sullivan, Sarah Tobin Imagine living in a refugee camp. For most, that phrase is enough to conjure images of makeshift tents, dusty pathways, queues for water and food, and above all, fear...
Lebanon + 2 more
by Sarah E. Parkinson | published September 7, 2014 - 12:57pm More than 50 percent of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon are 17 or younger. Back home the great majority of them were in school. But...
Iraq + 1 more
by Sophia Hoffmann | published July 15, 2014 - 10:51am In 2006, 30,000 Iraqis arrived in Syria every month, seeking and receiving safe haven from US occupation and sectarian warfare as kidnappings,...
by Yassmine Saleh | published July 21, 2014 - 3:54pm As Israel pounds Gaza by land, air and sea, we turn for a moment to the West Bank city of Hebron. In 1997, Israel withdrew its military from the...
by Vickie Langohr On June 3, the day that the Elections Commission announced the victory of ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt’s presidential race, television announcer Radwa Ruhayyim covered the...